government, right? the u.s. government as a whole entity knew -- >> that's big. known in the u.s. government is big. >> if i'm the white house i want to talk to whoever came off the plane from benghazi about what happened there. so you have that issue. so the idea of this was the video. there was a protest. that was a shaky story immediately. within 24 hours we knew that that probably wasn't the case, at least anyone who was sort of repeated reading the reports and listening to it and just sort of common sense, right? when was there a 10:00 p.m. protest in the arab world on a tuesday? that was an issue. you can look at what the white house did as malicious. they wanted to put this story out to kick the can down the road to get through the election. what i think is more likely, it's wishful thinking, cherry picking, that happens to suit their strategic needs. >> amy. >> in the beginning the argument wasn't that it just was in response to the video but from the romney side that it was in response to a statement from the cairo embassy being slightly apologetic about, as they saw it,